Saoirse Ronan
Saoirse Una Ronan (born April 12, 1994) is an American-born Irish actress. Primarily known for her work in period dramas since adolescence, she has received various accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for four Academy Awards and five British Academy Film Awards. Ronan made her acting debut in 2003 on the Irish medical drama series The Clinic and her film debut in I Could Never Be Your Woman (2007). She had her breakthrough role as a precocious teenager in Joe Wright's Atonement (2007), which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her career progressed with starring roles as a murdered girl seeking closure in The Lovely Bones (2009) and a teenage assassin in Hanna (2011), and the supporting role of a baker in The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014). Ronan received critical acclaim and nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress for playing a homesick Irish immigrant in 1950s New York in Brooklyn (2015), the eponymous high school senior in Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird (2017), and Jo March in Gerwig's Little Women (2019). She also won a Golden Globe Award for Lady Bird. On stage, Ronan portrayed Abigail Williams in the 2016 Broadway revival of The Crucible and Lady Macbeth in the 2021 West End revival of The Tragedy of Macbeth. In 2016, she was featured by Forbes in two of their 30 Under 30 lists, and in 2020, The New York Times ranked her tenth on its list of the greatest actors of the 21st century.
Known For
Credits
- 2024 · Blitz as Rita
- 2024 · The Outrun as Rona
- 2023 · Foe as Hen
- 2022 · See How They Run as Constable Stalker
- 2021 · The Tragedy of Macbeth as Lady Macbeth
- 2021 · The French Dispatch as Junkie / Showgirl #1
- 2020 · Ammonite as Charlotte Murchison
- 2019 · Little Women as Jo March
- 2019 · Loving Vincent: The Impossible Dream as Self
- 2018 · Mary Queen of Scots as Mary Stuart
- 2018 · The Seagull as Nina Zarechnaya
- 2018 · On Chesil Beach as Florence Ponting
- 2017 · Great Performers: Horror Show as The Mannequin
- 2017 · Lady Bird as Lady Bird McPherson
- 2017 · Loving Vincent as Marguerite Gachet
- 2016 · Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said as Self
- 2015 · Brooklyn as Eilis Lacey
- 2015 · Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
- 2015 · Weepah Way For Now as Emily (Voice)
- 2015 · Lost River as Rat
- 2015 · Stockholm, Pennsylvania as Leia Dargon
- 2014 · Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- 2014 · Muppets Most Wanted as Ballet Dancer
- 2014 · 73 Questions as Self
- 2014 · The Grand Budapest Hotel as Agatha
- 2014 · Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- 2013 · How I Live Now as Daisy Ryback
- 2013 · Justin and the Knights of Valour as Talia (voice)
- 2013 · Byzantium as Eleanor Webb
- 2013 · The Host as Melanie Stryder / Wanda
- 2011 · Violet & Daisy as Daisy
- 2011 · Hanna as Hanna
- 2010 · The Way Back as Irena Zielińska
- 2009 · The Lovely Bones as Susie Salmon
- 2009 · Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
- 2008 · City of Ember as Lina Mayfleet
- 2007 · The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey as Celia Hardwick
- 2007 · Death Defying Acts as Benji McGarvie
- 2007 · I Could Never Be Your Woman as Izzie Mensforth
- 2007 · Atonement as Briony Tallis (Age 13)
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2004 · Proof as Orla Boland
- 2003 · The Clinic as Rhiannon Geraghty
- 2003 · Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
- 1981 · Entertainment Tonight as Self
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- Future · Bad Apples as Maria